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Re:Smartphones and the location data marketplace by dantheman on Saturday December 21, 2019 @03:05PM (#21853080)
Even without targeted advertising journalism would still use advertising, they'd just make way less money.
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Re:Smartphones and the location data marketplace by newnewpdro on Saturday December 21, 2019 @03:34PM (#21853234)
I agree with your first part, but the second part isn't true if it were prohibited to do targeted advertising for everyone.

It's an arms race, you only earn less without targeting when your competitors are targeting. When all advertising is equally poorly targeted, everyone's getting their fair share of the available advertising dollars.

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